Rockwell Automation’s advanced automation technologies helped light up the Eiffel Tower.
A team from EOdev, a subsidiary of Energy Observer, built a hydrogen fuel cell-based power generator using Rockwell energy management technologies.
A video of the light show was posted in celebration of Bastille Day, the national day of France, on July 14.
The light display originally was part of the city’s “Le Paris de l'hydrogène” event in May. The light show projected a series of images in bright colors in the blue and green spectrum onto the iconic tower.
EODev illuminated the Eiffel Tower using an electro-hydrogen generator the company developed. The light show was part of a larger exhibit designed to demonstrate the potential of zero-emission energies. EODev develops and industrializes sustainable, reliable and affordable energy solutions.
The hydrogen fuel cell generator built for the show was controlled by a Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system, a spokeswoman for Milwaukee-based Rockwell (NYSE: ROK) said. The Rockwell controller was made at the company’s facility in Singapore.
The Energy Observer is a vessel that travels the world as a “lab in motion” using a combination of intermittent renewable energy sources including solar panels, hydrogen fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, and hydrogen production to achieve energy autonomy. Energy Observer is a French project that set sail from Saint-Malo in northern France in 2017 on a seven-year expedition around the world.
Rockwell technology helps the Energy Observer team monitor, control and optimize the distribution of energy sources and make decisions about when and how to switch from one energy source to another.
